Something beneath the Fenland concrete is moving.When workers at a frozen-food warehouse begin reporting a low vibration they can feel but barely hear, Mara Venn is sent to investigate what should be an ordinary engineering problem.It isn't.The search for the source leads beneath the warehouse floor, through abandoned drainage channels, forgotten process chambers and buried infrastructure left behind by decades of redevelopment. Every discovery makes the mechanics c...

At the Crown Electric Picture House, the screen begins showing things that have not happened yet.For cinema manager Nell Kaye, strange noises and ageing machinery are part of the job. But when Screen One starts projecting images of Nell and her colleagues several seconds ahead of reality, there is no sensible explanation.Then a woman appears on the screen who is nowhere in the auditorium.A 999 call is made before anyone places it. An earring turns up where it cannot...

Bellwether is an atmospheric supernatural mystery about memory, identity and a place that should not exist.Ruth arrives in North Yorkshire carrying a violin case, a handful of old letters and questions her mother never answered. What begins as an attempt to trace a vanished place becomes something stranger when maps disagree, roads lead where they should not, and the name Bellwether begins appearing in records that seem determined to assign people to lives they did not choose....

October, 1936.Samuel Keir has spent eighteen years making sure ships come safely alongside Arden Quay. He knows how a landing stage behaves under load. He knows what a bollard sounds like when a line takes strain. And he knows exactly what should happen when the ferry Plover approaches.What he does not know is why the quay begins reacting before the vessel arrives.Across the Sound, Calderay reports the same impossible pattern: landing stages dipping, bollar...

Arthur Hesketh has spent his working life following railway lines, timetables and rules. But on one final assignment before retirement, he is sent on a special working to the abandoned Bellwether glassworks.What waits there is not part of any timetable.As the journey bends around memory, regret and the life he might have lived, Arthur is forced to confront something far more dangerous than the impossible: the temptation to step away from the life that is still his.Special Working i...

A television crew arrives at Harrowfell hoping to turn a recent tragedy into compelling paranormal entertainment.Producer Liv Keane wants something usable. Presenter Elliot Marsh wants something sensational.When Elliot decides to manufacture evidence on the moor, the deception seems small enough to control.Then the real Hunt crosses the same ground.Fake hoofprints and impossible ones appear side by side, and Liv is forced to confront not only what she witnessed, but what she is willing to ...

In the aftermath of war, two sisters move through a world of ruin, ambition and the dead. Isabella and Antoinette are bound by blood, sharpened by loss, and willing to do what others will not.As old loyalties collapse and hidden names begin to matter more than the living who carry them, the sisters are drawn deeper into a darkness that will echo far beyond their own age.The Names of the Dead is a standalone dark historical prequel to The Shadow Casebooks.

London, 1982.Detective Constable John Williams is investigating a series of attacks that do not quite make sense. The evidence points toward one man, Ian Cain, but every answer seems to create a more disturbing question.When Professor Marcus Tremane is drawn into the case, the two men begin following a trail of impossible details through the dark streets and parks of London. What they find will bind them together for decades, and leave behind a case neither man will ever tr...

George Tremayne leaves England for war carrying Catherine Brampton's portrait and the promise of a future waiting for him at home.In Flanders, he finds an unlikely friend in Archibald Ackerman, a young soldier with quick wit, practical sense and more fear than he is willing to admit. What begins as ordinary camaraderie becomes something far darker when George is wounded and Archie is forced to choose between loyalty and survival.Years later, Archie returns to Altmire carryi...

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2017From the 2015 Baileys Prize-winning author of How to Be Both: An unconventional love story playing across the boundaries of time and history. . .**The first of four novels in a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colo...